Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-01-30

SEINE Of ahe Many odd Contests ne
veleped In last Years Games.

SEINE Of ahe Many odd Contests Me-
veieped In last Years Games.
An ambitious deliver in statistics says
IN the Clipper: Numerous noteworthy
contests marked the season Of 1856, in
Guiding the playing Of no fewer than
zT6 games tn which extra innings we're
necessary. Five games we're 30 stub
bcrnly contested a. TO necessitate G
playiag Of fifteen innings, the Bridge
port team 6Ruring Ia two CONTESTS Of
this class. Fifteen games OF fourteen
innings each we're played, including the
one between Harvard and Princeton,
May 3lst, In Cambridge. MAss., when
the former won by to 6, the longest
game that has yet been played for tbs
college championship. Thirteen innings
were required in each Of fifteen games,
including the opening championship
contest IN Kansas City, No., winch was
played on April 30th. the Chieagoes
then unexpectedly having 20 fight hard
to win BY q score Of to s. The Mem
phis club played two thirteen-inning
games in one week, defeating the Nash
vIlles 8 to 2 and being beaten 20 BY
the Atlantas. Games Of twelve innings
were played thirty three times. and Of
eleven innings sevsnty-six times. In
the short space Of three days in May the
st. Louis and the PittsburR clubs twice
played twelve inning gam, 8, each being
credited with victory. The most note.
worthy Of the lS2 games neeessitatinR
ten innings each was that played Ocso
Der I'D between the Browns of that city
aud the Chicagoes. The WashingtonE
did not win solitary extra inning
game daring the season. In three con-
secutivs games, June 8, and 8. the De-
tFoits played q total OF thirfy-eight in
ninks. THIS included contests Of eleven
and thirteen innings with the Washing
tons, and fourteen innings gith the
Philadelphia.
Six games were played last season 10
watch neither club scored q run, includ-
ING an eieven-inning contest betweea
the st. Louis Mar0ona and Kansas Oitys,
Sept. 20, 10 st. Louis. Fifteen innings
we're played March % Ia Savannah, Ga.
before the Pitfsburg club could get in
the only and winning rud. In Detroit,
May Is. the scoring Of solitary run In
the eleventh inning enabled the home
team to defeat ths Philadeiphias. When
these clubs met on June 8, in Phila DEL
phla. emily three runs were scored, and
these by the Detroits, in the fourteenth
inning. In five games il was not until
the tenth inning that q run was made.
The losing club failed to SCORE q run In
no fewer than two hundred and forty
two championship games of the leading
professional associations. 4 most re.
maHksble fest was accomplished by the
81. Louis Mar0ons in not allowing the
Kansas City Olus TO SCORE a solitary run
in the three games, agRregating twenty
nine innings. which were PLAYED Sept
20, q and y In st. Lous, Mo. The Osh-
kosh Cl1b, of. the Northwestern League,
enjoyed the distinction of being the only
one Of the hfty or more professional
teams playing under the National Agree
ment that was net shut out or BANKED
in q game at least once. Ninety games
betvee professional clubs we're stepped
By darkness or rain before the question
Of superiority could be decided, incIud-
log ths contest of fifteen innings be-
tween the Brida eport and Hartford
clubs on the formers grounds, June Is,
when the 50 IRE ste "a tie at 6. Dark
ness terminated thirteen-inninR con-
test between the Washington and De-
troit clubs June 4, in Washington, d. o.,
the SCORE then rem aiming tied at run
b. These clubs had played eleven
innings on the preceding day.